Before leaving, in order to avoid leaking the news that Qian Wuxiao had surrendered to the imperial court, he specially asked Yang Guang for permission, and used a death row prisoner to pretend to be Qian Wuxian, and arranged a good show of beheading the bandit leader Qian Wuxian on the cross street in Guangling City, so as to confuse the remnants of the "Wild Goose's Nest" hidden in the shadows and protect the Qian clan people who were kidnapped by them.

According to Qian Wuxian's confession, Li Jingjing discussed with Pei Qiantong and decided to focus the investigation on the Yandang Mountain area near Dongjiao City, and the 300 sergeants all disguised themselves as ordinary people, quietly set off from Guangling, and after more than half a month of rapid travel, they arrived at the foot of Yandang Mountain one after another to reassemble.

Coincidentally, when Li Jing and his entourage arrived at Yandang Mountain, they were just in time for the rebels led by Wang Zhongxuan to launch a fierce attack on Huiji City. The remnants of Nan Chen, who were dormant in the Yandang Mountain, heard the news and were ready to move, gathered nearly a thousand men and horses, and prepared to cooperate with the rebels to launch an attack on Dongjiao City, but also blamed their bad fate, and before they could get out of the Yandang Mountain boundary, they were meeting Li Jing and his party head-on, and were defeated by the three hundred elite Sui troops led by Li Jing and Pei Qiantong, and fled back to the depths of the mountains in embarrassment after leaving nearly a hundred corpses, and no longer dared to act rashly.

Although the group led by Li Jing won the first battle and won a beautiful victory as soon as they arrived in eastern Zhejiang, they also exposed their hiding place, and it was no longer difficult for the identity of the people to go deep into the Yandang Mountains to detect the enemy's situation, and find the remnants of the "Wild Goose's Nest" headed by Gu Zi'er that they were looking for.

At the same time, due to the lack of victory or defeat in the attack and defense of Huiji City, Li Jing did not dare to be careless, so he had to temporarily put aside the task of finding the remnants of the "Wild Goose's Nest", and immediately led the army to help Huiji after facing the remnants of Nanchen in Yandang Mountain, and assisted Wei Huang's troops to hold the city and meet the rebels.

When Mrs. Xi returned to the imperial court, cut off the retreat of the rebels, and forced Wang Zhongxuan to lead the army to retreat south, the situation in eastern Zhejiang improved, and Li Jingcai led the men and horses of the headquarters to return to Dongzhucheng, preparing to start reconnaissance and investigation in the area of Yandang Mountain.

Yandang Mountain is connected to the east in the north, Huiji in the south, and the mountain stretches for hundreds of miles, if you want to find Gu Zi'er's whereabouts in such a large area, even if three hundred hussar battalion soldiers go out together, it is by no means an easy task, not to mention that after the battle between Yandang Mountain and the remnants of Nanchen, the other party has learned that there is a strong fighting force, disguised as a common Sui army in the Yandang Mountain area, it must have strengthened the prevention, in this case, it is even more difficult to find out the remnants of Nanchen hidden in Yandang Mountain.

In view of the actual situation he was facing, after having a detailed understanding of the terrain of Yandang Mountain, Li Jing decided to abandon the plan of the whole team to go into the mountain to reconnoitre, and Pei Qiantong led a large group of men and horses to stay in Dongda City, while he himself led eight carefully selected soldiers to go deep into Yandang Mountain, responsible for finding the remnants of Nanchen hidden in the mountain.

Pei Qiantong followed Yang Guangnan to fight in the north for many years, and was the commander of the hussar battalion of the king of Jin, this time he was ordered to lead the people and horses of the headquarters to Li Jing to come to eastern Zhejiang to do an errand, originally not very happy, thinking that Yang Guang was too much to promote Li Jing, underestimate himself, now listened to Li Jing's arrangement, and couldn't help but smile in his heart: I said what kind of clever strategy you have, you can find out the location of the other party's hiding within a radius of hundreds of miles, and wipe it out in one fell swoop, it turns out that you have to go to death yourself!

Although he felt disdain for Li Jing's arrangement, as Li Jing's deputy, Pei Qiantong couldn't watch Li Jing take risks alone without saying anything, so he pretended to ask Li Jing to stay in the city and bring people into the mountains to investigate.

"I appreciate General Pei's kindness, but compared with General Pei, it seems that I led a few of them into the mountains to investigate, and it is more difficult for the other party to find flaws, don't you say?" Li Jing was very respectful of Pei Qiantong, who was more than ten years older than him, and stood up with a smile, pointing to the eight selected sergeants and said.

Pei Qiantong followed the direction of Li Jing's finger and looked at the eight sergeants who would follow Li Jing into the mountain to reconnoitre, and then he realized that these eight people all had a common characteristic: they were either the same age as Li Jing, and they were all sixteen or seventeen and a half years old, or they were born very thin and withered, and it was not easy to attract the attention of others. If a few people like this enter Yandang Mountain, they will be recognized as the children of local people who have gone into the mountains to collect medicine and hunt, and it is difficult to suspect that they are officials and soldiers who have entered the mountains to investigate.

"Ahem, the general is thoughtful, and the last general has never thought of this. However, since the last general was ordered by the king to follow the general to run an errand, he had to remind the general: If we want to find the people we are looking for in the Yandang Mountains within a radius of hundreds of miles, I am afraid that it will not be possible to rely on the few people brought by the general. Pei Qiantong blushed and questioned Li Jingdao.

"Although General Pei can lead a large group of men and horses to stay in the city with peace of mind, most for a month, or as little as ten days later, when he sees a fire in the mountains, he must lead a large team of men and horses into the mountains in time to meet us." Li Jing was inconvenient to explain his specific plans to Pei Qiantong at this time, so he only ordered him with a smile.

After Pei Qiantong returned to his dormitory that night, he thought about it, but he still couldn't guess what clever way Li Jing could come up with, he could find the whereabouts of the remnants of Nanchen in the vast mountains in just ten days, so when he sent Li Jing and the other nine out of the city in the early morning of the next day, he quietly called a cronie sergeant with sharp legs and feet, and ordered him to follow Li Jing and his party into the mountain, and after finding out the way for Li Jing to go into the mountain to find people, he would return to the city to report himself.

This Yiyanxiang is known for being good at running, only because he is eight feet tall and over 20 years old, he was not selected to go into the mountains with Li Jing to spy this time, and got Pei Qiantong's orders, so he also changed into civilian clothes and followed Li Jing and others into Yandang Mountain far away.

However, to the surprise of Yiyan, not long after Li Jing and the others entered Yandang Mountain, they openly inquired about the whereabouts of the Qian clan who had been kidnapped, claiming that someone was willing to pay millions of dollars to redeem the old and young of the Qian clan, and asked the mountain people they met along the way to help them give a message to the robbers.

Because Pei Qiantong had explained clearly in advance, as long as he could find out the method used by Li Jing to lead people into the mountains to find the remnants of Nanchen, he could return to the city to report to him, so as soon as it was found out that Li Jing had used the method of asking the mountain people to send letters to the robbers, he immediately turned around and returned to Dongjiao City and reported to Pei Qiantong.

"What do you say? Wouldn't it be self-defeating for them to find robbers in such a way? Pei Qiantong listened to the report of a cigarette, and couldn't help but widen his eyes, he couldn't believe that what he reported was true.